Alfred North Whitehead
TagProper 4 – June 3, 2012
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Reading 1: Reading 2: Reading 3: Reading 4: Isaiah 6:1-8 Psalm 29 Romans 8:12-17 John 3:1-17!– /wp:table —
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By Jeanyne B Slettom
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Isaiah 6:1-8
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Before Kabbalah, the mystical tradition..
Seventh Sunday of Easter – May 20, 2012
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Reading 1: Reading 2: Reading 3: Reading 4: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Psalm 1 1 John 5:9-13 John 17:6-19!– /wp:table —
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By Jeanyne B Slettom
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Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
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Christmas Eve/Christmas Day – December 24/25, 2013
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Reading 1: Reading 2: Reading 3: Reading 4: Isaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14; Matthew 2:1-12!– /wp:table —
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By Bruce G. Epperly
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The Christmas narratives present us with a set of what process theologi..
“To Sir, With Love”?: On Grounding Protests in Skeptical Politics
by Brianne Donaldson
The duty of tolerance is our finite homage to the abundance of inexhaustible novelty which is awaiting the future, and to the complexity of accomplished fact which exceeds our stretch of insight.
—Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, 65
As visitors filled Disc..
A Hearse On the Highway
by Brianne Donaldson
The enjoyment of power is fatal to the subtleties of life. Ruling classes degenerate by reason of their lazy indulgence in obvious gratifications.
—A. N. Whitehead
Adventures of Ideas, 106
Today an empty hearse cornered sharply onto the street ahead of me, speeding toward ..
Becoming Christ-like Heathens
by Ann Pederson
“What is done in the world is transformed into a reality in heaven, and the reality of heaven passes back into the world. By reason of this reciprocal relation, the love in the world passes into the love in heaven, and floods back again into the world. In this sense, God is the ..
Process Theology or Process Yoga? Part 3a of 3
by Darren Iammarino
Point 3: (Too Christian) There is no good reason why Process thought ought to be so tightly linked to Christianity. In fact, all this has achieved is confusion and a dilution of the greatness of the Christian tradition and the Process tradition. If you keep Process under the..
Prehension and Friendliness: Creative, Dynamic Peace
By Dr. Arlette Poland
Whitehead coined the term prehension. In his opus, Process and Reality, starting at page 19, he begins to unfold what prehension means in his complex and thorough biological model of existence and becoming. Prehension has two aspects that can be understood as subjective an..
PEACE? BAH HUMBUG – OR NOT
By Arlette Poland
What is peace, anyway? Is it even real or possible? Is it the opposite of war? Or is it the opposite of life?
I suspect that Whitehead believed that peace should not be any more concrete than war. In other words, when we use a term, practice a system, there must be some f..